TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned the regional states to be vigilant about the plots hatched by Washington and its allies, saying that the US-led West is seeking to change the geopolitical shape of the region."It is clear to all of us that the West has a decision for the entire region and doesnt like our region in its present shape and this is the reason that the British and the French are returning to the region after years," Rouhani said, referring to the recent war rhetoric of the French and British officials against Syria.
"A study of the (present) conditions in Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq and Syria shows that the West has made a chain of them and seeks to strengthen Israel and weaken the resistance front," he said, addressing the ranking commanders of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in Tehran on Monday.
Rouhani referred to the recent war rhetoric of the West against Syria and Damascus's important role in the region, and said, "The Syrian issue is the fate of a big region and not just a country and it may even change the fate of the world under some (specific) conditions."
The US, Israel and France have adopted the rhetoric of war against Syria over allegations that the Syrian government was behind a recent chemical attack near Damascus.
The call for military strike intensified after the militants operating inside Syria and the foreign-backed Syrian opposition claimed on August 21 that hundreds had been killed in a government chemical attack on militant strongholds in the Damascus suburbs of Ain Tarma, Zamalka and Jobar. The Syrian government has strongly denied the claim, accusing the militants of the attack.
Last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his US counterpart John Kerry started negotiations over a bid to put Syrias chemical weapons under international control an initiative proposed by Moscow to avoid US military strikes on Syria.
In a response to the Russian proposal, Damascus officially submitted a request to join the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention last week on Thursday, an agreement that commits its members to destroying their chemical weapons stockpiles.
In a recent development on Saturday, Kerry and Lavrov reached an agreement on a framework for Syria to verify that it is eliminating all its chemical weapons.
By Fars News Agency
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